Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bridge carrying main drive over Servants' Pathway including gate piers at Hartsheath
Leeswood and Pontblyddyn, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 5 December 1997
- Locality
- Hartsheath
- Community
- Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.13459, -3.06902
- Cadw reference
- 19107
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Situated to the NW of Hartsheath Hall, the bridge carries the main drive over the ha-ha and sunken servant's pathway.
History
Early C20 bridge which gives direct access from the principal front of Hartsheath Hall to the landscape park. It is not clear whether this bridge replaces an earlier structure.
Exterior
Early C20 stone and concrete bridge bearing a datestone inscribed '1916'. Flanking pairs of ashlar gatepiers with pyramidal copings to both sides.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Hartsheath Hall and the Sunken Servant's Pathway.
Nearby in the register
- Retaining Walls flanking sunken Servants' Pathway at HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Hartsheath HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- Ice Tunnels immediately to NE of HartsheathDomesticunder 1 mi
- Bridge over River Alyn at HartsheathTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.